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I know about germs and the importance of cleanliness; I also know about what ACTUALLY caused the plague
Also while Alexander the great was himself from so long ago, he's apparently attributed with having been the first to invent tactics, so if I go further back I can be the first to engineer tactics myself
If I go far enough back in Egypt, I'm scratching out messages in English to really mess with archaeologists thousands of years down the line
Many physicians tried to promote hygiene and were laughed out the park, nobody believed them. Apart from the correct idea, you also need to be able to convince people and it's not that easy
Depending on the precise time period, i wonder if you could manage it by using scented soap and insisting that people get sick because the surgeon's hands smell bad.
Actually, inventing writing and a phonetic alphabet would be pretty incredible.
Good job on that last one